Founding Engineer | Web3 Infrastructure | DeFi | MEV
Building transaction security & wallet infrastructure at scale
August 2024 – December 2025
Shipped Products:
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Unblind.app - AI-powered Web3 transaction clarity layer
- 93% accurate pre-sign warnings, preventing exploit-level losses
- Translates on-chain transactions into human-readable actions
- Stack: NestJS, Redis, React, Next.js, Tenderly, Moralis, Birdeye
- Live: Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BSC
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MEV Infrastructure
- Scanning public/private mempools
- Scanning liquidity pools and tracking price changes
- Scanning newly minted memecoins in new launchers
- Caching, rate limiting, batching of calls and transactions
- EVM Node management (reth, geth)
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High-Frequency Trading Backend
- 5k msgs/second WebSocket/REST throughput
- ~75ms latency, 10k+ concurrent users
- Multi-chain ingestion: Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BSC, Monad
- Event-driven: Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Websockets
- Infrastructure: AWS/EKS/Terraform (led 6 senior engineers)
June 2017 – August 2024 | Córdoba, Argentina
- 12+ client projects delivered: 87% on-time delivery rate
- Standardized architecture (Next.js + Flutter + NestJS): 40% faster dev cycles
- Smart contract expertise: ERC-20/721/1155 tokenization for agro/marketing use cases
- RWA protocols enabling $10K+ asset transfers
- Anvil testing reduced simulation cycles by 40%
- Infrastructure optimization: 25% AWS cost reduction, improved reliability through automation
August 2022 – September 2023 | Córdoba, Argentina
- Led 8-person cross-functional team, built MVP in 4 months (on time)
- Microservices architecture designed for 10k simultaneous users with autoscaling
- Tokenization protocol (ERC-20/721/1155) supporting real-world assets
- Custom blockchain integration for RWA minting/transfers
July 2021 – September 2022 | Boston, MA, USA
- Coordinated 4+ teams delivering 12+ REST API microservices
- Regulatory compliance in pharmaceutical data systems (PHI)
- 60% payload size reduction through Node.js performance profiling & filtering/aggregation patterns
- 80% faster integrations via repository structure standardization
April 2015 – November 2017 | Córdoba, Argentina
- Backend & frontend optimization for enterprise and gaming systems → 30% improvement in load times and API performance
- Interactive UIs and analytics tools (Angular, Durandal.js, Knockout.js, D3.js) → streamlined data processing for 300+ internal users
- Engine tools optimization (C++, C#, ActionScript) for Ignite Engine → reduced data retrieval load times from 18 hours to 10 minutes
- NestJS | Express.js | Node.js | WebSockets | Microservices | Event-Driven Architectures | Kafka | RabbitMQ
- Databases MongoDB | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MariaDB | Redis | SQLite
- AWS (ECS, EKS, S3, CloudWatch, EC2, ALB, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, Redis, SNS, SQS)
- Kubernetes | Terraform | CI/CD Automation | Docker
Next.js | React | TailwindCSS | Shadcn UI | Flutter | Context API, React-Thunk, BLoC
Solidity ERC-20/721/1155/, tokenization, governance, ERC-4337, EIP-7702. Chains: EVM (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BSC, Monad, Polygon), and Solana Indexing: Subsquid, The Graph Tools: Foundry, Hardhat, Anvil, Viem.js, Ethers.js, Web3.js, Tenderly, Moralis, Birdeye, Bloxroute, JITO, and more.
AI Agent Orchestration (A2A, MCP) API Integration: Openrouter, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini Agentic Workflows: CrewAI & n8n Prompt Engineering
SQL | NoSQL | ClickHouse | Snowflake | D3.js (visualization)
| Metric | Achievement |
|---|---|
| Products Shipped | Unblind.app, Multi chain trading platform backend, Wetokie MVP, 12+ client projects |
| Throughput | 5k msgs/sec @ ~75ms latency |
| Concurrent Users | 10k+ with autoscaling |
| Dev Acceleration | 40% faster through architecture standardization |
| Cost Optimization | 25% AWS reduction + 40% simulation speedup |
| Security Impact | 93% exploit warning accuracy |
| Team Leadership | Led 6 senior engineers (Trading Terminal), 8-person team (Wetokie), 4+ teams (HCS) |
| Delivery Rate | 87% on-time delivery across 12+ projects |
- Web3 Infrastructure that scales: MEV protection, transaction security, high-frequency trading systems, data & API aggregation layers
- Microservices architectures with event-driven patterns for real-time systems
- Smart contracts for tokenization, governance, DeFi operations (swap, flash loan, yield)
- Multi-chain solutions integrating Solana, EVM chains with unified APIs
- AI-driven systems that make blockchain transactions intelligible and safe
- Teams and processes that ship fast without sacrificing quality
✅ 0→1 Product Delivery | Founding Engineer roles | CTO-level architecture
✅ Web3 / DeFi / MEV | High-frequency systems | Real-time data pipelines
✅ Microservices | Event-driven systems | Multi-chain integration
✅ Team leadership | Cross-functional coordination | Technical strategy
✅ Smart contracts | Tokenization protocols | RWA infrastructure
✅ Performance optimization | Cost reduction | Production hardening
- Email: maxi@clawstudios.com | +34 662 544 167
- Website: https://maximilianomalvido.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maximiliano-malvido
- GitHub: https://github.com/maximalvido
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